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Show DISUNION OP THE CANADAS. , Tjir,- have got-a little the start of us in Canada. Tliero the subject of the dissolution dis-solution of the union is actually under dis-eussionm dis-eussionm the tegislativo Assembly. Vo dp pot mean the dissolution ol our U ulon, but of the Canadian union. This debate, is based oh two resolutions, OtTered by Mr. ; rijrown, leadiug Upper Canadian polity ! cian, and l-epresentatlve of Torouto, The first of these resolutions sets tortU that the existing legislative uuion of Upper Up-per and Lower Cauuda has failed to realize rea-lize tho anticipations of its promoters, has l resulted iu. a heavy deht, burdensome tux-! tux-! ation, great political abuses and universal dissatisfaction, and proceeds to express ' tlie opinion that the antagonisms between - tho twp sections, growing out of difference pf origin, Iocalinterests, and other causes, are 10 great that the union, iu H present formcannot be continued with. ndvahtn'ge. Thp feccoud resolution - proppscs ns a,.ub-! stltuto for the present 'systsntj the format tipu.of two pr-mpwlpcal governments,, to hate the cotitrof of,-lotkiil,maHoi:ssu1tJe"ct, liowever, iosomeunileliuc'd joint duthorify charged wlth.fiu'cli matttrs'jsard rjeccssa-rily rjeccssa-rily eommpii tp lipth.sections.! " There is unquestionahly a. good deal pf antagonism between thp two sections Pf Cauadd, The . existing pnioh Wn3.Toreed. upon both .proviuccs by. the Uritiah Got vertmibnt, cpotrary to the. wishes of both. At the 'samp; time they have, many cpmmpn Interests,, hciit-administered-'Vy a cOjiimoli gdvcrnmcitt-a. fact; cmphaticallyl!;ndmt'-tcd cmphaticallyl!;ndmt'-tcd by tho disunion resolutions themselves, which, after first-disuiijUng the provinces, propose' tp lriiig them, together again un: dcr a federal unioiu It is; aiso1 certain that iu tho course of, the twenty-three years that; tlie union has.exisCcd a very considerable progress; hnS been made toward to-ward nssimiiathigMhft two provinces; The present moycinpnt spem .Indeed to bo ah entirely Upper. Canadiaii fnpYcineiiti.ond io be, mniuly prompted -by. the fact, that tho Ministry ill 'ppwer dcriyp their priiiei-paVfeuppPrti priiiei-paVfeuppPrti from the represcntattVes' of the Jpu'eii province; '.. - ' ' : ,As to economy,. -debt aiul taxation, jt hardly seems probable that 'anything wpuld ho "gained upon, these' points, by., ha ying .thrcpor four governments to 'support, in stead "of otip,-Tvhih -ttfter "rill,' the grenv pphltsof.ppiitmversyiinddircrgenco, would, still poiitiihio to, ,'exist;)mid- '.yoiiltl-'.bp apt tq Interferp.quite -as' much' wiUi t)ic.srnOoth, working, of tlie proposed federal -govern mcii't as ihey ilonow- with the coilspirdatr cd gpvcrnmoqtipf tlie c'utirp-provihe'es. T.o tho present cpiilUpt ,of sectipns would .tery' likely be added disputes as to-the "extent of the powett of, the local and ihe federal; govermeiitk., , , "'Wo.do Tiotjiidgo however, that the present scheme 'is- brought forward witli any cxpectatjon thntjt 'will be carried into in-to effect,, but ratherKOS n jUcits oqcasion-pf 'Wgualizing the dissatisfaction of the Up-; per' "province at b'eicg; suhject'ed o what is represented ns a sectional Adniinisthi-tion-iV; I. Tniune. - |